The US will always be relevant, and this gives the US voter a large responsibility for where the US goes, politically and economically, the rest of the world follows, albiet in it's own way.
When the US went to war in Iraq, whatever the reason, the world changed. Should the US withdraw from Iraq, the world will change again. The scope of change in the Oval Office will define the world of the next 4 years.
THE DEREGULATION OF U.S. BUISNESS THAT TOOK OFF UNDER THE REAGAN ADDM.THAT GAVE US THE SAVINGS AND LOAN SCANDAL AS AN APPETIZER FOR THE NUMEROUS CORPORATE SCANDALS OF THE NINTIES.WHICH HAS LEAD US TO THE MAIN COURSE OF THE MORTGAGE CRISIS.IF THE U.S. BECOMES IRRELEVANT IN THE WORLD IT WOULD STEM FROM THIS DEREGULATION TREND THAT STARTED SOME 25 ODD YEARS AGO.I MEAN WOULD YOU TRUST SOME AMERICAN BUISNESS MAN IF YOU WERE A FOREIGN INVESTOR RIGHT NOW.
With the dollar dropping, the economy in trouble, the military over-extended, the growth of the EU and China, is the United States' power slipping? Particularly its power internationally? Has it - dare we say - become irrelevant?